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Walter Ong

30 November 1912-12 August 2003

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Adversativeness is the manner in which males differentiate themselves from the female environments in which they were nurtured by ribbing, pushing, shoving each other, as a way of displaying simultaneous closeness and distancing or a 'diffuse communal narcissism'. 'Male bonding groups are associations of loners'.

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Linearity characterizes thought in writing-dependent cultures while primary cultures follow oral cyclic thought.

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Linearity is an artificial creation structured by the technology of writing and literacy.

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Orality is empathetic and participatory rather than objectively distanced.